SOC 102 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE, F ’09: 2 DEF – 1) (individual choices are patterned (free will), similar but contradictory, people feel trapped) 2) People make choices BUT their choices are patterned What 3 social phenomena account for the paradox? 1. Culture • A shared way of life • Purpose: sets cultural standards, the “norms” Allows us to create different identities and ways of living. A guide of what is “normal” and what’s isn’t. • Norms : (social rules) what is seen as “normal”, sets standards… Originates from society. • Nacirema : Sociologists use the term to examine aspects of the behavior and society of American people (aka the culture). Extremes of human behavior, culture which focuses on the human body; extreme ceremonies and rituals, “human body is ugly”’ and it’s natural tendency is debility and disease. • Seeing Holistically --- seeing the whole rather than the individual parts. • TYPES

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